rsvg-convert does produce files with transparency. Its output looks good to me.
On Sat, Jul 23, 2022, 6:53 AM Friedrich Beckmann <friedrich.beckm...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > the only thing I remember what to consider was that the resulting image > file has correct transparent settings for the background. When I tried an > alternative ages ago the resulting bitmap files did not have a transparent > background. > > Cheers > > Fritz > > > Am 22.07.2022 um 20:48 schrieb Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>: > > > > PSPP currently uses GIMP to generate PNGs from SVGs. GIMP is > > heavyweight, slow, and commonly not installed on developer systems, so > > we run it from Smake as pre-configuration. > > > > There's a newer program called rsvg-convert that is much more commonly > > available these days. It is lightweight, fast, and more commonly > > installed (it is a binary that comes with the rsvg library, which is > > itself widely used). It produces good-quality output. I think that we > > could switch to it from GIMP, run it at build time instead of as part > > of Smake, and thereby improve the build process. > > > > Does anyone have comments on this? > > > >
